The article "How To Make More Money With Ebay's Affiliate Program." talks about auctions, it was released by Kirsten Hawkins.
If you've been on the web for a while, the chances are that at some time or other you will have taken part in an affiliate progarm.
They generally work by giving you a URL to send people to their site that contains your affiliate number, and then giving you a small amount for each person who comes in using your link and signs up or buys something.
eBay's affiliate program fololws this basic formula, but with a couple of twists.
It pays a lot.
Each user who follows your link to eBay, signs up and then bids on anyhting within 30 days will earn you $20. Most affiliate programs will only give you something like 10% of the user's first purchase.
What's more, for each existing eBay user who clicks thorugh from your site and then places a bid or buys something, you'll get 10c.
You can be your own affiliate. If you just link to your own auctions with your affiliate link number from your own website, then you're getting money without sending buyers to anyone except yourself. There aren't many affiliate programs that can say that.
So Where Do I Sign Up?
You can visit eBay's affliiate program at http://affiliates.Ebay.Com/. Once you're there, just clcik 'Join the Program'. You will then be required to sign up for Commission Junction, which is free.
How Can I Get Pepole to Click the Links?
eBay recommend a number of 'business models' for their affiliates.
Before peolpe can click your affiliate links, they need to be at your website.
There are two ways to get them there using a search engine, which eBay refer to as 'natural' and 'paid' search.
Natural search: This is when somebody finds your website in a search engine's normal results, either cause something you wrote is relevant to them or you used SEO (search engine optimisation) techniques. Be careful not to use any dodgy methods to get a high search engine ranking, though, or eBay might come after you and keep your affiliate money.
Paid search: This strategy involves paying for traffic to your website or directly to eBay, by purchasing ads on search engines. If you go for this option, it's actually worth placing ads on the less popular search engines instead of the enormous ones: they'll have similar click-through rtaes as a percentage, but the cost typically won't be anywhere near as high.
Content: What you can do is just have a normal website, with articles on a variety of subjects and perhaps a community forum. Run the website for pleasure, but place the occasional eBay affiliate link there.
Newsletters: Don't ignroe the potential of putting your affiliate ID in each time you send out a newsletter. You can get 10c for every bid it generates with no extra work, whcih could be enough for the e-mail to pay for itself, whether it leads to any sales or not.
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